... capable of providing good tradeoffs between miniaturization and power handling Side views and the photographs of the 60 GHz resonators are shown in Figs 4.2 and 4.3, respectively In the conventional ... after lamination All the layers including the base substrate had laser cut alignment holes in the same relative locations to enable precise stacking on an aluminum bonding fixture The final laminated ... since fast printing processes, such as direct write methodologies, can be utilized instead of metal etching techniques A fast process, like inkjet printing, can be used efficiently to print electronics...
... coupling spacing [d12 in Fig 4.7(a)] between the first and second resonators for the required k12 was determined from Fig 4.9(b) k23 and d23 are determined in the same way as k12 and d12 since ... patch bandpass filter The feeding lines and the open-circuit resonators have been inserted into the different metallization layers (feeding lines: 2nd and, 4th resonators M2; 1st, 3rd, and 5th ... magnetic and electric coupling, respectively The other coupling gaps [S12 and S34 in Fig 4.12(a)] for C1,2 and C3,4 can be easily calculated for the mixed coupling The tapered line position [T in Fig...
... After determining the initial dimensions of the external/internal slots, the other design parameters such the cavity length and width [L and W in Fig 5.2(a)] using via walls are determined under ... vertical intercoupling of three-pole cavity bandpass filter, the input and output feedlines are placed on metals and 4, respectively; the coupling coefficient can be controlled by the location and size ... resonator approach investigated in Section 5.1 The cavity resonator shown in Fig 5.6 consists of one LTCC cavity, two microstrip lines for input and output, and two vertically coupling slots etched...
... cavity filter (c) Intercoupling rectangular slot (d) Intercoupling cross slot CAVITY-TYPE INTEGRATED PASSIVES 69 The 3D overview, top view, intercoupling rectangular slot, and intercoupling cross slot ... the intercoupling structure in this study In the past, mode matching methods [70] and scattering matrix approaches [76] have been used to analyze the modal characterization of intercoupling discontinuities ... coupling, M12, is realized through the electrical coupling and is controlled by the offsets of the I/O feeding structures Also, the intercouplings, M13 and M32, are determined by the size and...
... surface ring This fringing field along with the fringing field at the radiating edges of the patch antenna forms an antenna array in the E-plane The formed array acts as a broadside array with minimum ... [substrate andin Fig 6.5(c)] of an integrated module to increase the gain even more and to reduce future backside radiation The maximum gain for the patch antenna with the soft surface and the ... isolation in comparison to a traditional coplanar microstrip feed There were two substrate layers separating the patch and the feedline, and two substrate layers separating the feedline and the...
... high honor in the spring of 2001 He joined the electrical engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology, in the fall of 2001 and received an M.S degree in the fall of 2004 and a Ph.D in the ... Technical University in Athens, Greece, in 1992 and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993 and 1998 He is currently ... Tentzeris, “Design and characterization of novel paper-based inkjet-printed RFID and microwave structures for telecommunication and sensing applications,” in 2007 IEEE MTT-S Int Microwave Sym...
... autocrine and paracrine activation of EPCs resulting in differentiation or transdifferentiation, proliferation and vascular growth [12] b integrins (LFA-1, Mac-1) and b integrin also mediate homing ... observed a cyclical increase in EPC mobilization following a rise in estrogen and VEGF levels during menstrual cycling in uterine tissue [50,51] Recently, the role of estrogen in tumor induced neovascularization ... functions intissue regeneration, tissue remodelling and cancer progression In tumors and ischemic tissues EPCs have a direct structural role of differentiating into mature endothelial cells and an indirect...
... assembly and budding Studying the precise steps of the intracellular trafficking of envelope glycoproteins should then bring some understanding as to how they encounter Gag in cells In the case ... fixation and staining A Co-staining of CD25 chimeras and Mannose 6-phosphate receptor of 46 kDa (MPR46), a protein that accumulates in the TGN at steady state B Co-staining of CD25 chimeras and internalized ... possesses dileucine- and tyrosine-based motifs that drive its trafficking in a TGN-endosome cycling pathway (Blot et al, unpublished data) Finally, the tyrosine-based motifsin position 23 in the cytoplasmic...
... or staining intensity was scored on a relative scale of to 4, with representing no visible staining and being extremely intense staining Tissue to be embedded was excised from the stained and partially ... fusion in Ws and dir1-1, respectively Examination of these lines indicated that the DIR1 promoter region initiated expression of GUS and DIR1:GUS in seedlings, roots and floral tissues andin all ... two proline-rich SH3 domains SH3 domains participate in protein-protein interactions in numerous proteins [23] Lascombe et al postulate that the DIR1 SH3 domains may play a role in interacting with...
... we repeated the same infection experiments in the H9 and CEM-SS cells using the C-terminal truncated Vpr-carrying viral strain IIIB As shown in Fig 2B-b and Fig 2B–d, the kinetics of viral replication ... expression and induces cell killing in human immunodeficiency virus type 1infected dividing Jurkat T cells J Virol 1998, 72:4686-4693 Vanitharani R, Mahalingam S, Rafaeli Y, Singh SP, Srinivasan A, Weiner ... patients by stimulating expression of sHsps Methods Maintenance and growth of mammalian and yeast cells Genotypes and sources of S pombe strains, mammalian cell lines and plasmids used in this study...
... contributions ARD was involved in the study conception and design, data collection, analysis, revision, editing and manuscript writing HK was involved in the conception and design of study and took an ... spinal injury “Since the arrival of rescue workers was delayed, some untrained response workers and laypeople began evacuating the casualties to nearby cities in private vehicles, without taking ... active part in the data analysis and results interpretation GO participated to the study conception and design, writing-up and finalization of the manuscript MC contributed to analyze and interpret...
... possible, in which pericytes induce and guide vessel sprouting In the developing human brain, migrating pericytes are found in front of growing vessels and pericyte-driven angiogenesis participates in ... origin [78] According to the monocyte hypothesis, during embryogenesis, and even in adults, migrating monocytes enter the brain via blood vessels and then differentiate into certain types of brain ... chemokines and integrins After docking to the vessel wall, leukocytes extend their processes toward interendothelial junctions to search for abluminal chemokine cues Chemokine–chemokine receptor interactions...
... proSpatzle-1B, contained a 30 bp insertion in the ¨ ORF, beginning at nucleotide 516 This resulted in insertion of a 10 amino acid segment (TREIDYPETI) and one substitution (Ser fi Gly) at the C-terminal end ... shown in bold, and the scissile bond is indicated by an arrow Absolutely conserved cysteines are shaded and numbered The paired numbers (1–1, 2–2, 3–3) indicate the intrachain disulfide linkage in ... SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting using Spatzle antibodies The ¨ ¨ sizes and positions of molecular weight standards are indicated on the left Bands representing proSpatzle precursors, cystine-knot domain...
... ODN-mediated inhibition of gene expression in vivo This would be compatible with the ®nding that antisense ODNs can be very effective in inhibiting gene expression in the brain [44± 46] In both fetal and ... response to ODN treatment varied considerably 15PC3 and MiaPacaII showed a good response, while HEK293 and HTB82 hardly responded at all, and HeLa and T24 showed an intermediate response To investigate ... punctate perinuclear and cytoplasmic staining of other structures than appear following liposomal transfection The corresponding PO-ODN shows a similar pattern and intensity as the PS-ODN in the ¯uorescent...
... predicted glycine-rich nucleic binding domain found in the splicing factor 45 and other DNA-binding proteins [11,20], whereas RRM (RNA recognition motif) was already described in numerous proteins [21,22] ... of about 40 amino acids, and is present in a number of putative RNA-binding proteins including a tumor suppressor (human LUCA15) [27], many RNA-processing proteins (45-kDa splicing factor) [11], ... [26] TgDRE and orthologous sequences not show obvious similarities with other proteins specialized in DNA repair Interestingly, they also contain motifs typical of proteins involved in RNA metabolism...
... conceptually decomposing the system in single units, studying these units in isolation, and evaluating the whole as a linear combination of the units' properties (Lewontin and Levins 1987) A homogeneous, ... center, founded in 1984 Since its founding, SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science Operating as a small, visiting institution, ... agent is an input-output device that performs formally defined tasks following the "sense-think-act cycle." After gathering information (the input), the agent processes it by linking the input to...
... antiangiogenic and anti-invasive G1 cell cycle arrest Gi ⁄ o pathways Adenosine A2 Adenosine A3 ALXR CXCR4 d-opioid Gq ⁄ 11 pathways a-thrombin Angiotensin II type Apelin APJ Bradykinin Bombesin Endothelin-1 ... Following agonist-induced activation, dopamine D2 receptors are internalized and form a multiprotein complex that includes b-arrestin, protein phosphatase 2A and Akt Protein phosphatase 2A inactivates ... phosphatidylinositol 3kinase, Akt ⁄ protein kinase B, FRAP ⁄ mammalian target of rapamycin, and ribosomal S6 kinase signaling pathways by thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and stimulating type TSH...
... that in the Bay, low temperatures during winter and anoxia during summer, in combination with the changes in salinity, are associated with high mortality in this species [25–27] In view of CHH involvement ... ES inresponse to changes in environmental conditions such as oxygen, temperature, and salinity [19–24] CHHs from the gut and the cells in embryonic abdominal segments seem to be particularly involved ... experiences migration and seasonal changes in environmental conditions, including temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen (http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/ monitoring/water/index.html) In particular,...
... protein aggregation, played an important role in the protein function Our approach to the study of protein structure and dynamics in such media has been focused on understanding how proteins are ... 13 Halling PJ (1990) High-affinity binding of water by proteins is similar in air andin organic solvents Biochim Biophys Acta 1040, 225–228 14 Yang PH & Rupley JA (1979) Protein–water interactions ... centered on polar regions of the protein surface that increase in size and number as water is added Protein–water adsorption isotherms in organic solvents andin the gas phase [13] have shown that,...